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COP27: India, China on track to overachieve 2030 UN climate targets
Business Standard
Tim Buckley highlights progress on decarbonisation in India and China, noting, for example, that at the current rate of installs, China is on track to reach its 2030 renewables target of 1,200GW five years earlier with a possible plateauing of emissions this decade, ahead of the 2030 official peaking target.
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What the Origin bid means for Australia’s energy transition
Investor Daily
Tim Buckley in an extended interview with Investor Daily looks at the huge private equity bid by Brookfield and MidOcean for Origin Energy, coupled with their $20bn commitment to renewables, and AGL’s prospects to transform from climate laggard to leader ahead of its AGM, noting the accelerating capital flows to decarbonisation.
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Big bid for Australia’s Origin defies industry fear of gas price cap
Reuters
Tim Buckley notes that Brookfield and MidOcean’s bid for Origin exposes the “lie that governments working in the interests of Australians in an energy crisis will scare off foreign investment.”
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What’s expected to happen at COP27?
Triple J Hack
Tim Buckley breaks down expectations for COP27, with compensation for the climate change loss and damage suffered by poorer nations top of the agenda this year. (at 21:25).
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Entire state’s power system on the brink as Indian loan to Aussie miner Griffin Coal turns toxic
ABC online
A deepening coal crisis in Western Australia, linked to an Indian bank loan to gone bad, is threatening to turn the lights out this summer. Tim Buckley explains in this feature from ABC national energy reporter Daniel Mercer.
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Pressure mounting on $318b energy giant that says it cares about climate
Sydney Morning Herald
Despite the very real problem of greenwash, Tim Buckley remains hopeful that some leading fossil fuel companies will pivot to play their part in reducing climate change via ongoing scrutiny from consumers, shareholders and authorities, and ongoing investment in the financial and technology sectors.
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Australia and US push to ‘friendshore’ critical supply chains draws rebuke from China
PV Magazine
“Friendshoring” – ensuring supply chains come from geopolitical allies – is the focus of this piece featuring the work of CEF’s Tim Buckley and Matt Pollard analysing critical minerals value adding projects in Australia.
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Australia’s playbook to become a renewable mineral superpower
Climate & Capital Media
CEF’s Tim Buckley and Matt Pollard explore how Australia’s new Labor government has set its sights on 21st-century gold: value adding our world leading supplies of lithium and rare earth minerals.
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Energy efficiency tips to fortify your home as climate change warms the planet
Canberra Times
Tim Buckley says Australia’s energy crisis predicament could have been avoided by policy certainty around renewable energy. “We really need to see the $20 billion ‘rewiring the nation program’ implemented at speed”.
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Nowhere for polluters to hide: Satellites track power station emissions in real-time
Renew Economy
Tim Buckley says the current reporting of emissions data by the Clean Energy Regulator is ad hoc and partial and “having real time satellite data by facility, that is independent and transparent, would be a huge step up.”
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Drop the defeatism. From Lula to renewables, there’s reason for hope on climate
Yahoo UK
Tim Buckley comments on China’s leadership on decarbonisation in this positive international story on the progress being made to a better future.
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Gas exporters in frame as government looks for revenue boost
Sydney Morning Herald
Tim Buckley says the Petroleum Resources Rent Tax, designed to raise revenue from multinational gas producers making superprofits, is structurally flawed and predicts a Treasury review currently underway will find that it is not operating in the national interest. The Treasurer has undertaken to carefully consider the advice as pressure for a solution to the gas price crisis ramps up.
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